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Grammar
शब्दानुशासनवृहद्वृत्ति
Śabdānušāsanabshadvștti
No. 101
283 1873-74
Size - 104 in. by 44 in.
Extent - 404 leaves, 21 lines to a page, 45 letters to a line.
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Description - Country paper. Devanāgari characters, clear, careful
and legible writing, generally correct. Ruled in bold red lines, red chalk used except for the last few leaves. A short lacuna occurs on foll. 5a and a few more here and there. Folio 282 is written on one side only. The margins contain pencil notes, giving the number of the sūtras, probably at the hands of Dr. Kielhorn who used the Ms. for a long time. There are also occasional marginal notes by the scribe himself. The first 240 leaves belong to a scribe different from that for the remaining portion. The Adhyāyas had a separate paging given in the corners, but a later hand has numbered all the leaves consecutively. Contains the first seven Adhyāyas complete. The Ms. comes from Jodhpur.
Age – The Ms. does not appear to be very old.
Author - Hemacandra.
Subject -The larger or Bțhat commentary on the author's own
Sabdānuśāsana-sūtras, as distinguished from the smaller or Laghu-Vrtti, which is also ascribed to Hemacandra. Each Adhyāya is followed by a verse in praise of the author's patron and his family. These will be found collected a little below. The Ms. before us does not give verses from 21-25 and only the last two words of 28th. These have been supplied from other Mss.
Begins -
प्रणम्य परमात्मानं श्रेयः शब्दानुशासन । भाचार्यहेमचंद्रेण स्मृत्वा किंचित्प्रकाश्यते ॥
